Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong, 1126Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru, 1535The first documented UFO sighting in America, by some very perplexed pilgrims in Boston, 1644Pirate Henry Morgan defeats the Spanish defenders and captures Panama, 1670San Jose, California is founded, 1777Captain James Cook stumbles upon the Sandwich Islands (Hawai'i), 1778The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay, 1788Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, the first US electrical journal, begins publication, 1840Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, J. C. Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom, 1884Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England, 1886The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States, 1903The first shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania, flown by Eugene B. Ely), 1911English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before, 1912Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia, 1915A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri, 1916The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden, 1944Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut, 1958A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War, 1974Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease, 1977Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs), 1981*The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family, 1983Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided, 1997The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth, 2000Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over, 2002A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia, 2003The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France, 2005Hurricane Kyrill becomes one of Western Europe's deadliest storms, 2007An amateur astronomer in Peterborough, England, discovers a new, Neptune-sized exoplanet, 2012

*Leading me to wonder why, and whether i am looking at the future of my own daredevil child